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How to totally clean an used hard disk that will “kill” viruses, including those in the MBR boot sector?

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You can use the DOS command FDISK which will wipe out everything and requrie reformatting. Type FDISK/? at the DOS prompt for more info. Make sure you are ready to lose everything on that drive, because it will be empty!

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FDisk will do what you want, but it wil. kill EVERYTHING!!! Unfortunately, some viruses won’t go away unless you use a removal tool. So, you can either use a romovel tool,, then boot to dos with a norton or macafee disk and get rid of the viruses of just kill the partition with fdisk. Again, beware, fdisk will delete EVErYTHING.. so make sure you backup.

USE:

c:>fdisk c: (or d: or e:)

option 4 deletes

option 1 creates

Good luck

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Quote: “Unfortunately, some viruses won’t go away unless you use a removal tool. ”

Does it mean that some virus will survive even fdisk/mbr is executed?

The data in this used hard disk is not a concern. I just need to make sure there is no virus in this HD before installing it in my PC.

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No, if you fdisk the HD and the MBR, all viruses will; go away,..,.

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